[…]girl called Jenny something, who did absolutely nothing! And so I found myself taking the actors round, making sketches for the clothes and doing the costumes! I had no time to help Mac at all. But then when the English...yeah, they were doing the English scenes over at [Bray] in Ireland, and so I w[…]
[…]ought it was very funny. I had a terrific cast, terrific cast! All the best actors there were in England in it, and it had five periods of changes of costume. I wanted to make it in colour and I wanted to make it on exterior. And Bob Morley said, "Look here, no one would..." he'd made 'The First Gen[…]
[…]their heads of departments and that head of department may not have had anything to do with that production.All MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc) costumes and designs by the same one, Cedric GibbonsThat’s right but he wasn’t on the film at all and contractually I suppose and it really went that […]
[…] instance, the wardrobe. Well we had quite a lot of costume pictures, naturally most concerned with Drake of England which […]
[…]nd so she played the DuBarry, which was quite a big production.Roy Fowler: I'm looking at a still, an exterior still, a large crowd, elaborately costumed. Where was that? Is that on the back lot?E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, that's Aldenham Park, which was a country club, just up the road in Els[…]
[…]ing tomorrow?’. He said, ‘I think I’ll have a scene in the library between Asquith and his wife’. So we’re saying, ‘right, I need a library, find the costume for Asquith and his wife,’ and the next morning he’d come out with a page and a half of script and we’d film it, and it meant enormosly compli[…]
[…]a script down on the desk and said, ‘We’re making that instead. We’ve got six weeks’. So it was six weeks to prepare a big period picture, have every costume made, every prop made, engage every artist. Of course he’d got Hepburn and O’Toole, but they were looking round finding four youngsters to pla[…]
[…]inson although officially he was on the script he was also a second, third assistant director. There was Jeff Boothby and David Lean in charge of the costumes which was an unusual thing to have but because of the enormous number of costumes involved you had to have somebody responsible and the camer[…]
